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m ! iii X ) V1 7 w ' mmggmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm - - rn & - sz s VOLUME XXV. RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA. Sii.PT. lO. 1897. NUMBER 36 KLONDIKE LETTER. (Special CorroMiondenco.) Tapoma. Witsh.. Sunt. li. Mnny hardships an encountered in gleaning tbc latest authentic news from tho Alaskan gold Holds. During the past six days I bavo been rolling and tumbling about tbo Straits of Fuca. Sleep could bo had at but abort snatches of from livu minutes to two hours. I have not had my clothes off for livo duvs and meals have been served, when served at all, in cramped quarters iu u ujc. .... n with everything tied fast and a safety railing around the table to keep the cups and dishes from tumbling oft aud breaking. Wednesday I came to town for a few hours and while waiting for a sten ographer to take down a few dicta tions I fell sound asleep while sitting bolt upright in a chair. That was tbo dm after tho Associated Tress and tho St. Louis Globe Domocrat "scooped" an army o! specal correspondents on tho cream of the Klondike news. Well, the ball opened Tuesday night, August 24th. I had just written my lasi Klondike letter and immediately took passage f rom Tacoma on the elegant steamer City of Seattle for Port Town send. I arrived at tho latter place at 440 a. ra., and before the atearaer had made fast I wm hurrying about the docks la iet of a tug. A minuUor two after I had made ar raagsneaU wltk Captain Herbert F. lUMher toco town the straits aboard tbc tag IMftear,. Gwtohf fmfrt to; a ton of the late Henry Wirlteecher;' but a man not aware of the fafct would neter know it from Captain ueocucr himself. Even one of bU nautical friendB whom I afterwards root at'aca did not know it. ' JuaVr-e rounded Point Wilson and stral .icd out for down tho strait, Beechcr asked inc if I could sco tho "light" on DuugouosS- spit. Dungoncss iB a littlo villago on tho shores or tbo Strait of Fuca, on tho Ainoriean side A spit, consisting of a narrow piccu of landbank, make out Into tho sea four miles iu :i semicircle aud shelters Ihu littlo haven. Tho light rof erred to was tho government light bouse on the -pit. It was fourteen .tnllos distant nnd I could not boo it "by about llvo miles" as It afterwards turned out. At Port Angeles, after visiting Tort Crescent. I left Captain needier, and at somo other tlmo I may unfold an in teresting talo about my experiences with him and his gontlomanly crew His tug, liko the otlieis, bobbed about, whon tho sea was rough, liko a match in a mill pond when tho wind blow up strong. I fell a victim to soa-sicmicss, of courso, aud Beccher gently put mo to bed. , , At Port Angolo I bargained with Auothcr tngnmstcr, Captniu llucklin, to go out to Flattery early in the morn Sng. During tho night, howoter, tbo government wcatlior observer at Tu toosh islaud, at Hie mouth of the srrnlt reported ih stoa-mur Portland, from St.Mlnacls, Alaska, entering. To bo moro nccurato this man Hobbs, Ins namo is lloblw, did not uusioau several lie Hill I. Hofdtn- Klondyke was coining into Pugct Sound. One new j-gatherlng syndicate wired that tho Portbuid was entering tl e sound with miners and gold aboard. It was daylight, however, before the average correspondent knew that Hobbs had guessed badly, or that his bad guess had been twisted out of shape by some of the newspaper men who were famishing for "story." 1 simply "held my base" at Port Angeles until I became sa'.isticd that the Portland had not ariived. I ills missed thu idea of going to sea with Captain Buckliu iu thu tug Boysun, al though I was quite sme he would meet a St. Michael's steamer for which I was keeping vigil. My guess discounted Hobbs1, as Bucklin did come iu tbc 'next night with tho Fred E. Sanders, thirty days out from St. Michaels. I million people next morning. He ti not say the r.tttiuar was tho Portion' He did say ho guessed It was ply rondo a bail guoss. It proved to be .hoeolllor Vt illumeite returning from Skoguay aud Dye, after having takeu .up 830 would-u Klondlkers aud a large amount of freight for Dawson City. Sho is in the aori carrying trado between Tacoma aud Ban Francisco, nnd made a special alp botwoen Sfcogiay aud Dyeu bo. uonao there was ' big wouoy" tu the venture. Tbo captain dwoided to come - t. ,.nioiirt nnasaffo from ihu nortb.tbat U, he cawe out Into iM. Pacific ocowi t Sitka, and avoided the iuaido run among tho jiuiall iulaud, whiob is Uw Hsual touiae fot sUamcts 2oiag.t.TiTMi, D 1 bkaguay. Iualde of ht bow after Dobhfl gave iao word at Tvtooah Uland, tho utop ylun oK poiut of the United Slater, the ..w .ind telcttt-aph editors of the country hud bcon ilcclereij Into beliov jutf tbo troasnro Bteamcr from the "" W it' Cw(Pf " went up to Towusend on a steamer and started back again on the tug Vig ilant the same night. Captain Walters of the vigilant let me take the helm aud we steamed out of Port Angeles nnd I asked him to keep a sharp lookout for a sail. We headed down tho mouth of the Straits of Fuca as night closed in. He knew the whereabouts of every craft on the coast and the schooners Fred E. San ders, J. M. Colman, Ford and Alice Cook were all duo from Alaska and with newa from the land of gold. Presently waiters saia: . "There'i a schooner off there." Under his direction I ported the helm and Jogged along at ten knot for a loBg time before the captain taid: "I'll take the wneei now and speak her." - the engiueer, everybody "stood by" and presently a faint, timid voice from the schooner called: "Ship ahoy." "What schooner is that?" asked Wal ters. "J. M. Coleman," was tht reply. "From St. Michaels?" "Yes sir." "Whcu did yon leavo St. Michaels?" "July 2(5, air." "Has nnyone poken you?" 1 was prompting him. "No, Sir." That settled it. Tho iJoluman was our feast. Wm came alongside aud Captain Waltct'3 casually intimated thai ho hat' a "bottle," whereupon tho enntuin of tho .schooner. Captain Train or. liecamn very anxious to inter view it. c foiinil several miueis nboaul all fnli from the Klondike, Mr.Cli.ii. II. Moloalf, of Detroit, Mich., more of u luuier than a miner, being the mntuxuciiuiiuud. We unearthed a mine of Klondiku news on the Cole man, and even though it was near midnight whnu wo boarded her, every man uuo.iid uiowditii Into thu captain's iooiiitulio.il' thu nows of tho world, butt hey wtro no inoro anxious for the imw-i of the world than tho world was fov tin' new tbo.v brought fiom Klon-dil:o. The si mo nielli I li'j nchoouerlred h. canio tin 0112b the straits with six pas- acugers who bruiiuht down about $70, 000 in niiKgof, Ono of tho passengers, Jeuiinlo MoNani", is a reputed Klon dikd millionaire, tilihouuli ho was uot worth uboo nuougli to buy a Klondike outilb ton months ago. Ho estimates tho oul put nf gold from the Klondike lor the jcar ending loday atonly $2, 000,001). Ho also ostimutes the output botwoen this d.Uo and August 31, 1893, Ht W,0Q0,(W). Kvti after the cream has been worked ot, ho says, there will bo tfood "pay dirt" thoro for many roars to conic. i... .- tit .. J ....t... , 1L. ..-.- I lio HigniHvwii. s'uini. iii vav fimiu montsof tho Kloudikors just nrrived by tho echooucrd Coleman nnd Banders and thestenmor Portland, U that tho now ditmovuucd oiitsulo of tlio Klon dlko aro panning out well. Many now strikes hnv been reported and letters rcceivnd'bbte at ho oucouragiug that oHtcnjivo prepai'atioiiH uro being made to doublu thu cupacity of thu o.tiitlttiiig houses. Steamskins will muke.the run from Tacoma to Skaguay and Dyea in seventy hours, and some form uf .sto.im overland transuurtatiou for tho nioiui twin pnvt trill be Arranged. During thu past suniroor tho Klondike inlneiv IiuVj bcun oxnrtine themselves with pruparatloud for tbo winter's work aud lituo mteiitioii has been tfiven to get tlug out goliV1 i '- - . (Wnuiwl nimrKrJWno.nooin told that wni brought down on tkm nteamer Pur;bud,Sisiv por cent was owned by actual miners. Tha trading companies will sand dov.n bctweon 6760,000 and 1,000,000 by the last OCMJUT nf thn season from .;U. Michaels. Tbo latter amount will be lu addition to tbo $?, 000.000 estimate ot Mr. AIoNuiumt, ranking a total of nearly 13,000,000 for tho ui'1T J' ar or ine itiowiiffo. i no output of next yrar in cuimafed at from W.000,000 to $15,000,000, My forraor ndvl-io, "don't goto Klon dike until Bpi'IriL'" till atatuls. TTIOMAfHSTMOVS WASHINGTON NOTES. Pri'oent indications aio that the in tire clvi .service law and ruled will bo passed upon by the U. S. supreiiu' court in tho near future, an I there is moro or less trepidation among gov ernment oHiuliils who have supposed themselves anchored iu life time po sitions, under the protection of thu law aud tho rules prescribed for its en forcement. A test case is to be made of the suit brought in a District of Co lumbia court, by John U. Woods of Louisville, Kentucky, to prevent his removal by tho pos tunstergeucrnl from a position iu tho elassilied service without any charges having been made against him. The case was to have been heard Saturday but a postpone ment for ono week was naked and ob tained by the counsel for tho postmas ter general, nnd it is announced that uo matter how It tuny bo decided by this court, it is to be taken up by the U. S. supremo court, in order to settle the question once for all of tho power of rtmovnl. An attempt is also to bo made to have the decision cover other civil service law matters more or less in doubt or dispute. Franca ia the Mrst country to notify this government of its desire to secure both forms of reciprocity provided for by the new tariff law, aud the French ambassador ha formally applied for the reduction In the duty on articles ot Franah production that the president I U asAkbr)zed to make by proclamation JwWtfw. l;sAr.a;:Weari siders the ooscmmmm offsted to war rant snob action ob his part. These articles are limited to brandy, cham tries that will be represented therein, and in tho list is "Thu United States (including Alaska aud Hawaii." This is keeping up to date and a little ahead One of the knottiest pioblinus yet tackled byAtlortxy (ioncral McKeuua is ihu conjunction which shall be placed upon that portion of thu new turllT impi's-iug discriminating duties. It was lefericd to him some timo ago by Secretary Gage, for an opinion. Tho matter is of vast importance to thoso weo are interested iu our fcreign commerce, involving, it is claimud, revenue tu the eMeut of 130,000,000 a j ear. Woll Again. Cured of a lin gering disease. Knjoying the lux uries of hoallli after years of sick ness. Freo once moro from the clutches of mcrci loss ailments. Walking again on Che green earth in the fresh air, among the beauties of nature, after long confinement in ben to the dingy sick room, where hope and Joy are unknown. Well again. Never did, ho- executive pardon bring greater pleasure to a uesponueni rm oner than 'these words bring to the bedfast invalid. rnAAA..M4 1)U. f,.(,ts allj finnPK nIltj Rniinbles SOME RAM BL1NG THOU GHTS. !lt rain or what-not, the days hut ry by Unit are giving bis neighbor good II V "NKMO." (Coi'jwtlKliU'il li) Dune .1 Tnlior.) pagne, still wine and vermouth, and paintings, drawing and statuary, and the reduction of duty to about 85 per cent. The French ambassador has also given notice that bis country wishes to negotiate a general recip rocity treaty with the United Stales, iu accordance with the provisions of the new taritl. This law provides that ilicsu treaties shall, in addition to bo ingratilied by t lie senate, be "approved by congress." This is tho lirst timo that the consent of the house has been made necessary to put a treaty into ef fect, but that is uo tcason why it is not a good idea. To Tin Matuuk anh UriiKiti: The slight chill iu the morning mist, the changed color of an occasional leaf bu fore it (hitters to the ground, thcsilene ing of tho birds, thu odor of thu even ing airthese signs unite, with mini beilcss others to announce that summer is Hearing its end, and with it is van ishing the opportunity for raising fur ther crops, (tood or bud, well tended or neglected, the results will soon bo estimated and the farmer knows wheth er prolit or loss is the result of his labois. Thu wlso (aimer ilnils tho autumn at hand iu its due season; the wasteful, idle ono Is astonished that it is hero so soon after tho spring days when thu sun summoned vegetation to life. But gone Is the summer and no voice is so loud or so imploring as to cull It back. One more seed-time nnl harvest is gathered into the eternal nnd irrevocable past and the hastening days move us away from tho tlmo of crop growth, forward to the time whin the storms without nrodelleil by reason of the stores within, or tbo waitings without accentuated by tho want wltbin. Up-f tbcrMtlb'i irlM while ye msj, For winter aill iwMptiwIr muU wy ; Wbcn On flrtf aUeaad Uie Ult It sane, And lh ukN skiver psle an wtn ; When the afurgtow mt Kovsabw fadei, And u) wind ate lbs walta of pbroudlew , Kithtr somebody has been mistaken about thu salary being iusuHlcicut to attract a lirst class man, or a lot of second rate architects are trying for tho position of supervising architect of tho treasury. A special examination to till this olllcu is being held, and so far nearly eighty aicnitccts liavo pro A Dr. Hariman cure many such peo fob y cut i -uaanst Jreef jrg4.. iiaiWtw4irtsirtiw, Hera la one el the many letters we doctor receive from grateful patients. Mrs. Beaolt, 181 Pleasant &t Clnclu olnatl, Ohio, writes: "I employed three physicians, but they did not help me at all. I finally gave up doctors and continued to grow worse. 1 was so miserable I wished I.was dead. Lifo had no pleasures for mo. Four bottles of Pt-ru-na cured mo. I nm stout and well and feel years .younger." Dr. Hart man has recently written a book expressly for women. This book is intended to show what a boon Po-ru-na is to sick wonien.especially thoso suiTerinj; from any plinso or stage of feinalo troubles. A freo copy of this book will bo sunt to women only by Tho Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing Co., Columbus, Ohio. Tho old settlers of Webster county will hold their seventh nutiual plciiif iu the court bouso park, Hcl Cloud, Nob., Thursday, Septomdor 23nl;.1807. Settlers aro cordially Invited to meet ulLhiiri. but any onn desiring a holi day nnd wishing to bavo nn enjoyable onnti (ItriliPiiiflitlvps Ifiir.foxnininfitlnn. lima will bo mudo welcome L'bo glnd This olUcinllhaslcharge ofitho.orection of all public buildings throughout tho country. Tho civil service commission wished everybody to know that It is simply throwing away uiouoy to pay for any information connected with its exam inations, either In Washington or else where, whon such informutiou may be bad withou' paying n eont by address ing tho T S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. Tbo experiment of it.siug carrie- pig ooui to carry information from onr wiv blilps tu land, which was tried dur ing tho evolutions of tho North'Atlan tie squadrou in tho Atlantic olf Cape Chftrlos, was such a couiplistosuccots Hint tho nary dopaitiuont. will, hore iiftuv, legultirly male nso of tlioso bird? a news carrier. Tho news was ia this caso taken from tbc flagship now Tork, tbn jS'nrfolk navy yard and f ions tbeio telegraphed to Wash ington, thus keeping tbo department informed of ovory tuovctnont ofiho squadron. .. . The Coiumurciul Ditcotory, issued by IhoBtiie.tn o( Atiuuican ltepiibllcs ha annexed Haw.iii without waiting for tho f onalo to out upon tboticity. In a baud book just issued In that bureau is a iirospeetuu of tho Coiuinov cial Diicctory, aud a list oftbocouu- tWltt'. I.UUm t?r1o Dla.x j TketewmmmttAfitns. band will be extended lo all. Ample urrangemoiits will bo mnde to inmiro your comfort. Bring your well filled baskets, appetites, your lings, your swings, your hammocks, imd tho de .slro to rnjoy yoursolvoe. Donald M:CaTI.'im, Pros. T. C. HicHia, 8w. Don't think your liver needs treating if you aro bilious. It don't. It's your stomach. That is, your stomach i.i really what causes tho bill!oti3ncs: Tt hao put your liver out of order. See what's the matter with ju'ir fitomach. Sick stomach poison's liver and tliou thoro iB trouble Shaker Digcstivo (?ordial cures stomach and then rdlM woll. That's tho cabo In n mUsholl. Shaker Digestive Oordial is noeaorot, fornmia'flon every bottln. Jlnt It's thn simple, houest way it's uiado, tho bon. est Sh.iker herbs and other iugrcdlpnt; of whioh it's oomposod, that makes if do efllcacious. Any real case of itidigosti u and bit 11ou3Iimbs can be cured with a few bat tloaAif Shaker Digcailvo Cordial. Tryit. .Sold by droggi9t3 at JO eonfs to Hl.09 per bottle. Tho "BlcyollstVs Bo3t I'rJeiiiP'.Ja a familiar namo for PeWltt'fl Wlteli HumI Salve, alwasa ready for omer gouoles. Whljo a spociiio forpiloa, it also Instantly relieves and ouros cuts, bruises, salt rheum, ccvscina and all af feotioonof the akin. II novor falls, C. f. Col ting WMCB WlllWWiwrw "Mi And' the jra Mroaff inuuihoed ettrtled hilti. At ths primal ebttt lM Itie osvntne; raultr, And knswi Ibtt lla loo Kbnll bo atrlokcn dumb, Aud luUugbwr lulled-tllUprlnr li codio. Tho slackening stop, this occasional fooling of impatience at tho frantioaud unreasonable joy of children-, tho gray hair hero and there, tho brevity of tho years these ivio signs tlmttho summer time of your life is pacing too. Vou rub your oyes to see if you do but dream tho incswgo of lessening time that Is evur buzzing In your cars. Thn shivering senso of protest against, thn despeiato hurry of tlmo Is tho counter part of thai hollow, soughing sound that seems now to ct cop through tho woods; rhutBhiMilorlngbreiUli, uhlclitclW tlif UK Isplnct'd to the soavm'k fimcml )ff. Tho tlmo of opportunity is passing; tho time of garnering draws near. Into that full crop of n-jcompllshnionts and nf deeds, which some of you will re joice over, am woven the works done when you were weary, but dono novor-tholo-'s because, timo was never known to return. In your harvest of plonty are treasured tho duties dono becausu thoy noeded to be done and not. bo- causo tlicy ero easy aim picavuib. Such works aro thorc oi cry ono of them; none aro lost. And you with wisps from your noglaotod llclds of llfo, and hands full of gleanings from otlior's bonnty -theghostsof neglected chances nro Impalpable iu your grasp, but they aro there. Indolent turning ovor on rlowory Ind- of caso bath it- toward, and you begin to soo it in vis ion ai: autumn of regret, n. wintecot eboerlcsa emptiness with nothing of honest pridis whoroon to feed self re Stpect. , i Doc the .sun maki aDy audible nois nu it peeps over thu hill-tops in thn morning' Does It summon the farmer to duty with nerMs'ent call and shnk JngsV Jo! Ihu day comen Nihjnlvt si lently docs it uo and wano, audsllnilly dons it pass and without protest, nvun 1 unimproved. Tho farmer'. nrill.a tlon of time does not originate frani any compolling foroo in tlio power of daylight, but from a pnrpnie within )iis hrart to rnak'o tho inost.-bf hi", farm tin the daj.s tliat tbo passing scroti-? returns for elToit expended. This it. so generally true as to bo practically ac curate. And thus it is with the opportunities of life. They do not troop up to us with thu blare of trumpets. As silent ly as thu sun do they pass us by nnd as supremely iudllicront to neglect do they sink out of sight. Invisible to the eye of thu savage is tho modern war ship buried in a bed of iron ore. Just so invisible are most opportunities ex cept to the eyes of compelling faith. The iron clad is there, tho opportuni ties are here, all around us, free ns air and discoverable by every man of full faculties, who will takeofhis timofreo- ly, mingle it witli strength of ouiooso aud direct his operations with intelli gence. He it U who makes highways across trackless desorts; who dares out on deeps evwn if alone; who, ever ills satlslicd with these things whereunto our race has attained, moves us for ward along new lines, dragging us to betterment by his own forces. Ho it Is who is ever harassed by the indolent who will not act, and the faithless who will not believe lu opportunity until h materializes before their very eyes. But what of the harvest? To such a man, no matter bow barrtn bis life may Mrst promise to be, there is a cred itabla career, not perfcaut of nosey grabbing, but, at any rate of boaeat; upright living and kiaelly bewvoitmoe'.' And to tbAttUs.l ;Xky U-UHWr, ,, elves wM4 tetitewsws.'t)Tff CUltfcirspMiai . tffXMUl spite,: U part f tke Mgitj-'tBr crawl off to escape tho hardship!; and,, when they como to themselves as life Is waning, see nothing worthy of a race that has suffered and sweated and tra vailed for every single inch it has gained in morals or in materials. They have enjoyed some of its gains, but they bavo added naught to Its store. Their hearts starve and their memories perish. (,Vhno then lu curw tlio lilltor Mow of fate, No koM l Miiy whoM- reward li great. Kucli Imrrler won will heart and strength rcuow, Knoll nUip ARcciiilcil Klvos a wider view. I know people whose lives seem one long experience of meeting with bar ricades on thu way of life, nnd yet in their disappointments aro their oppor tunities, and out of them thoy seem to extinct tho tenderness of heart that is touched with others needs, aud that lovely isharity for all who labor aud uro heavy laden that charity that makes thorn bearers of good along pathways Unit to thorn nro over thorny. Hero's to your gocd health I Ust "Keonomy Boncsct Cordial." C. L, Cottiug. y t IMPURE BL000 ia caOnCd by tho Itldncja falling; U properly filter out of It all polonon". matter.' If you am lire.d.dnll, aehlnjraud suf fering greatly from a rsouibinatlon ol iilluuiuta, yov' nay bo r.ure your Mrf noys aro eloj. id and inactive. Hare vour Kidnuys and thn blo'.'d sviil taWft caro oi iWfdiz. tou cm no CURED Vonr Hobbs Sparagus Kidney Hb nro indeed oscellont, aud nceompllsh what yon claim the. would. They arc the only pills I can tocommund for tnr kidneys, and for tlio purposo iuleiidtsd Thoy are indeed blooil imrillei's; hcaUliy and health giviug. Anyone troubled with his kidneys ihould tnk tlic.so pills and nothing else, as the overcome such trouble as well a lira vnt thm. I have tried tboni with fievetnl parsons, and with goodsivee I do not care for patont mcdlnlno, Imt illaf?oolono. mirn flincorciy, .riv llllll. nutuhiuillfltltfnilWl.-M WilHr . ' ' , ', W.J, iI.U4WJI, 0.... -.- ,.-.-,, .... , . tho fiowur.s of nattivo th(ir. ho fmh' itgii , tiol, tnn tmrren piaeoenu no ihmiu to lloinish, and ontof thopavohod giouinl como foilb food. While tlm idlo fur UWIU'p Colic A Cstolr Cnr. Quiet ty nm Dysmftry sad fHistrlcta. Anq Arbor, Mich, HOBBS Saracus Kitfnty PUrs OBM3 KUIDIT OO., Paul ami aw, Ckik UOBM3 KBMEOT CO.. Pamamil . Canrjibc . lr. nobb MP Wat Bate In tll ULOilU, Mils i oy . i.wm.'iN0, tironnni. I V V t I , 1 U l M . .7 r v m .raa , '5 $m - . W . 12 f.Ti Ms '- SsTT? SSiTT